Criminal Law category: 2380 books
Foucault, Crime and Power
Problematisations of Crime in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It considers how crime has been conceived as problem and, by scrutinising the responses that have been adapted to deal with crime, demonstrates how a range of power modalities have...
Hurricane
The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In 1967, the black boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Carter gradually amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of celebrities...
Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception
A Psychophysiological and International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Polygraphy;' "lie detection;' and the "detection of deception" are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes. The issues raised by polygraphy...
by J. Patrick O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Mumia Abu-Jamal—the most famous death-row inmate in the United States—was sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing police officer Daniel Faulkner. Using the preponderance of evidence to establish that Faulkner shot Abu-Jamal as he approached him and that a passenger in Abu-Jamal’s brother’s...
by Michael J. Bazyler, Frank M. Tuerkheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to
respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it
would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some.
This book uncovers ten “forgotten...
Going Up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the...
Grave injustice
Unearthing Wrongful Executions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
On September 21, 2011, the controversial execution of Georgia inmate Troy Davis, who spent twenty years on death row for a crime he most likely did not commit, revealed the complexity of death penalty trials, the flaws in America's justice system, and the rift between those who are for and against...
Capital Punishment
London's Places of Execution
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
London had many places of execution: Tyburn, of course, but also Smithfield, Wapping, Kennington, Tower Hill and Charing Cross among others. All of these venues allowed the public to participate – whether in approval or opposition – and, in the opinion of the authorities, provided deterrence at...
Cyber Mercenaries
The State, Hackers, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Cyber Mercenaries explores the secretive relationships between states and hackers. As cyberspace has emerged as the new frontier for geopolitics, states have become entrepreneurial in their sponsorship, deployment, and exploitation of hackers as proxies to project power. Such modern-day mercenaries...
They Had No Voice
My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty-one-year-old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would became so concerned about conditions for black juvenile offenders there -- including hard labor, beatings, and rape...
Debating the Death Penalty
Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public...
Executed on a Technicality
Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries...
by Angelo Pisano
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Prison Guide: Prison Survival Secrets Revealed finally delivers the unwritten prison survival secrets of true hardened veterans. The survival guide explains current methods, philosophies and displays the critical security-based information.
Discover the techniques, the true survival practices...
Dispatches from Juvenile Hall
Fixing a Failing System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions...